Defense Planning for National Security: Navigation AIDS for the Mystery Tour - Paperback

The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches; futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis; the impossibility of science in studying the future; the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses; the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for defense planning; the use and misuse of analogy; learning from history; why and how strategic history works; and recommendations for the Army. What can be learned from history and what cannot are discussed in this analysis.

• | Author: Colin S. Gray
• | Publisher: Military Bookshop
• | Publication Date: Mar 19, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 70 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1782666508
• | ISBN-13: 9781782666509